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length, and of a bright filver colour, whofe bite is Fone in os 
Innumerable {warms of infects and vermin infeft both 
he air and groun he fnakes, poifonous vipers, {cocpions, 
and {colopendre, find their way into the houfes to the great 
moleftation and even deftru€tion of many of the inhabitants. 
Some of thefe animals have found their way into the beds: 
and the inhabitants, in order to fecure themfelves from dan- 
Ber» are under a neceflity of carefully examining their houfes 
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and other infette, all perfons, even the negro flaves and In- 
dians, have canopies over their beds. In ae the number 
and activity of thefe vermin are diminifhed. During the 
the caymans, fome of which are of the enormous 
th of nine yards, {pread over Ee country ; but inthe dry 
on, from June to December, they are lefs troublefome. 
This feafon, which, within the mud is the coldeft, in fome 
ae. Raigerates. the inhabit tants, who are Fig ke and 
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merely. — feces, fit. for. building and repairing 
hit jitition aquil begins.at Cape Paflado, fo 
its: bing 2 _ 3. ‘ef the equinoétial, and abo 
‘half a degree N. of he bay of Manta. From this cape it 
aloo <— coals inclading the ifle of Puna, to the 
umbez, where it is ter- 
Picea. From thence It runs 
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eattward, 
= t paces 
des, it terminates on co 
“length from N. to S. is about 60 - oy ed its breadth 
from E. to W. 40 0r 45, reckoning from the point of Santa 
bead to the parts called Ojibar. e whole country, like 
-apativi — of A city, is a Le cneenns ss be 
inter univer - owed, vided into 
feven eres or 
oat sare 2 mit, stieateunt or deputy, adie is spanned 
lone 
During the’ 
and for preventing the accefs of the mofquitoes 
fields. 
efteemed, wax, cotton, ban 
ments, -for =) of which the nj 
are Puerto fro 
0, covered with tiles. . 
quantities of cacao, and that of the former is efteemed the 
beft in the w 
of Ya 
* jusididiion contains three towns. Its chief produdt.. is 
wood and a little cacao: but cattle and of tton are the prin- 
cipal objects of attention to its inhabitan 
of Babahoyo and Baba, fee thefe i 
cy of Daule includes a arts of the fame name, and is 
wafhed by a river, to which It 
aa th a great trade is Saad 
The bufinefs of grazing is followed 
in all thefe. oe more or lefs ; in proportion to 
their extent, the nature of the foil, ad, the convenience of 
driving the cattle to the mountains, beyond the reach of 
the si Juan and Ulloa’s Voyage to South ascii 
rica, vol. 
GuUAYA sans a city; the capital of the abov. 
ed about the year 1534 or 153553 but after bah grabs 
by the Indians, it was re-built in 1537, at fome di 
from its firit fituation, “ the declivity of a Pocahg yee § 
in 1693, contiderable a itions were made to i at the dif- 
tance of five or fix ae a toi'es, communicating with 
the old part by along bridge. The city vietes along the 
of the river from the lower part of the old. idee to 
the upper part. new, near a league, but the 
breadth is not ceisvieaen to the Goat The Boules of 
both towns are chiefly con{truéed of wood ;: but fince 
the year 1767, they fale to ufe whitened earth, as 
beet lefs fubjeét to accidents from fire.. After the almoft 
; the itreets having been paved, and an arcade 
running: before all the houfes, fo that walkers are prote&ted 
rain. The houfes are alfo improved, and 
Neverthelefs, the marthes in its vicinityy. 
from fil 
it infalubrious and fubje& to difeafe, 
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The city hasa anal church, two convents, a college 
rege _ an hofpital. Poth s the city.and its Belek oo 
r, nominated by the king. he holds 
ies office ie ‘years; for and civil petraline 
mi has ordinary alcaldes, and regidores. "The reve- | 
nue is mé 
by a treafurer ~ an eA cg who ree 
utes of the Indians duties on imports and 
exports, snd the taxes on junion i are either, con 
pce in the — or carried through it. ‘The ec 
in the -bifhop of Quito's vigas, who is 
gener alte sich of. Dodden. Whe city is. defended 
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